Larry Hogan

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Hogan Jr. (25 May 1956-) was Governor of Maryland (R) from 21 January 2015, succeeding Martin O'Malley.

Biography
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. was born in Washington DC in 1956, the son of Congressman Lawrence Hogan, and he grew up in Landover, Maryland, and then in Florida after his parents divorced. In 1985, he founded his own brokering, consulting, investment, and development company, spending the next 18 years in the private sector. He lost the 1981 Republican primary for a US House of Representatives race and lost the 1992 House election to Democrat Steny Hoyer before serving as Secretary of Appointments of Maryland from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Bob Ehrlich. In 2014, he won the gubernatorial election with 51% of the vote, the biggest upset in the country; he was the second Republican governor in nearly 50 years and the first from Anne Arundel County in over 100 years. He claimed to be a centrist and pragmatist, and he was popular among Democrats for this reason. He supported the Paris Agreement, same-sex marriage, DACA, a certain degree of gun control, and the banning of hydraulic fracking in his state.